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I Can't Make This Up
- Life Lessons
- De: Neil Strauss - contributor, Kevin Hart
- Narrado por: Kevin Hart
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself since Old Yeller.
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Best Audiobook I Ever Listened To
- De Sam Clear en 07-13-17
De: Neil Strauss - contributor, y otros
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Another Dry Martini. Another Perfect Souffle.
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It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim – nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise. Eventually he becomes rather good at it and manages to go to pieces with his eyes open. But no sooner has Jimmy cut a wild swathe through fashionable London than his terrifying Aunt Nesta decides he must mend his ways. He then falls in love with the girl he has hurt most of all, and after that things get complicated. In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations....
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Delightful P.G.Wodehouse plot & J.Cecil narration
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The Luck of the Bodkins
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Monty Bodkin loves Gertrude, who thinks he likes Lotus Blossom, a starlet who definitely adores Ambrose, who thinks that she has a thing for his brother, Reggie, who is struck by Mabel Spence, sister-in-law of Ikey Llewellyn (movie mogul, Ambrose’s prospective employer and reluctant smuggler), but hasn’t the means to marry her. With well-meaning but unhelpful ship’s steward Albert Peasemarch and a toy mouse thrown in for good measure, it will take the luck of the Bodkins to sort it all out.
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The P.G. Wodehouse Collection
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This title includes not only the entire audiobook of Right Ho, Jeeves, but also all of the P.G. Wodehouse titles in the current Classic Tales library. It also includes a Jeeves short story only available in the collection: "Extricating Young Gussie". The complete running time is over 15 hours. All titles have been remastered, and have never sounded better!
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Don't buy this version of the wonderful Wodehouse stories
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When Maud Marsh flings herself into George Bevan's cab in Piccadilly, he starts believing in damsels in distress. George traces his mysterious travelling companion to Belpher Castle, home of Lord Marshmoreton, where things become severely muddled. Maud's aunt, Lady Caroline Byng, wants Maud to marry Reddie, her stepson. Maud, meanwhile, is known to be in love with an unknown American she met in Wales. So when George turns up speaking American, a nasty case of mistaken identity breaks out.
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Solid but probably for fans only
- De SGW555 en 01-12-08
De: P. G. Wodehouse
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P. G. Wodehouse Volume 2
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Audible Studios presents the second volume of the best-selling PG Wodehouse collection. In this volume, Stephen Fry lends his voice to the Blandings stories. This collection contains: Summer Lightning, Heavy Weather, Blandings Castle and Elsewhere, Lord Emsworth and Others, Uncle Fred in the Spring Time.
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- De NJ en 01-21-22
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Heavy Weather
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
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Galahad Threepwood is causing scandal again...this time by deciding to NOT publish his potentially humiliating high-society memoirs. His decision causes rifts in the ranks at castle Blandings and all involved split into three camps: those who want the book suppressed, those who want it published, and those, who for some reason or another, that have been sent to steal it.
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Hilarious - and this is a really good reading, too
- De SGW555 en 01-30-09
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Quick Service
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
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Imperious American widow Beatrice Chavender is visiting her sister's country home near London when a most unfortunate thing happens: She takes a bite of inferior ham while having her breakfast. Soon everyone around her is suffering the consequences - her sister, her brother-in-law, the butler, poor Sally, Sally's fiancé, and even Mrs. Chavender's ex-fiancé, "Ham King" J. B. Duff.
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Hilarious!
- De Jaime Treadwell en 05-18-21
De: P. G. Wodehouse
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Frozen Assets
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
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For Edmund Biffen Christopher, life is about to be very good - assuming he can stay out of trouble. If he can avoid being arrested until his 30th birthday, he will inherit his godfather's millions. The trouble is Biff has a certain proclivity for getting into fisticuffs...particularly with policemen. And he's already nearing 30.
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A John Cleese caper
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 02-26-23
De: P. G. Wodehouse
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Bill the Conqueror
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
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Sir George Pyke is quite disappointed in his son Roderick's business acumen. Roderick, unlike his old man, lacks the aggressive drive required of a business tycoon. So the elder Pyke resolves to marry him off to the sprightly Felicia, who has enough spark to manage any man and may just do him a world of good. All is going well until Bill West arrives from New York.
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Very, very silly, as expected - but fun!
- De Sarah en 02-14-17
De: P. G. Wodehouse
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Summer Lightning
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
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One of the very best in the popular Blandings series, set in that idyllic Shropshire countryside, where the sun always shines. Comedy centres around Clarence, the dotty ninth Earl of Emsworth, doting on his prize pig: The Empress. His brother Galahad fears her fate is under threat with Clarence's rival Sir Gregory Parsloe. Parsloe is aiming to prevent her taking the County Prize. He lives in fear of Galahad publishing his memoirs and revealing their wild younger days.
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A Pig, a Tell-All Book, Two Engagements
- De Joseph R en 01-07-10
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Uneasy Money
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
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Lady Wetherby had a big, soft heart, and she hated hurting her fellows. As a rule, when she had bad news to impart to any one, she administered the blow so gradually and with such mystery as to the actual facts that the victim, having passed through the various stages of imagined horrors, was genuinely relieved, when she actually came to the point, to find that all that had happened was that he had lost all his money.
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Good Wodehouse. Not his best, but good.
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Jeeves and Wooster: 29 Short Stories
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
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A collection of the comic master's early stories of perpetually in-the-soup Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves, including their debut in "Extricating Young Gussie" and all 28 stories from "The Inimitable Jeeves" and "Carry On, Jeeves".
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Summer Moonshine
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- Ijw
- 11-20-21
wonderful
A comedic romp with just enough spine to keep it interesting. There is a plot. There are heroes and villains. There are The usual suspects and a reliance on money solving problems. It was written in 1937 after all. The charm is how Wodehouse manages to introduce a whole cast of characters, of various stations in life and make them all fulfilled and relevant to the story. A modern audience will find opportunity to take offense if they don't check expectations of rewriting the past at the door.
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- Stephen G. Smith
- 01-04-17
Delightful!!
There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- that is not perfect about the combination of Wodehouse and Cecil!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-08-22
So fun!
A perfect afternoon’s entertainment! So witty and enjoyable weaving of words and characters! Top notch!
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- eglantine
- 01-29-21
Really enjoyable Wodehouse and great reader!
Another excellent performance of Wodehouse by Jonathan Cecil. He captures the humor and the understatement beautifully. Wodehouse stirs up the plot til it bubbles over and we have a happy ending. Perfect antidote for stressful times!
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- Crystal Lynn
- 11-12-22
They used the N word way too often
Funny as hell. But one of the American characters is keen on the N word. It shocked me and rubbed me the wrong way. I’m just not into it. I know it’s a different era. But f* it. It was hurtful.
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- Elizabeth Hopkins
- 06-23-23
Madcap and delightful
Every time you think you know what’s going to happen in this novel Wodehouse makes it funnier and wilder. Lots of characters doing insane and lovable things, and some classic Wodehouse one-liners that made me laugh out loud. Cecil does a good job with totally distinct voices for each character. Just delightful.
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- Michael P. Barry
- 08-14-22
Very satisfying Wodehouse
Full of verve and laugh out loud funny in many places. Only for those who want to enjoy themselves.
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- John
- 06-16-14
A Somewhat Un-Wodehousian Wodehouse
Of early Wodehouse novels I have observed—and I’m sure others have, too—that they show the author moving from the then-popular, sentimental yet more “real” world of human emotions and tragedies toward his signature style of persiflage, tempests in teapots and sheer physical comedy. But even after that mature style has asserted itself, we can have relapses. And I think Summer Moonshine (1937) is one of them. Perhaps it is the only one. (Perhaps not; The Coming of Bill, 1920, also stands out as an aberration in the canon.)
I don’t mean to say that the whole book is sloppily sentimental, a sort of Rosy M. Banks saturnalia. On the whole it is the usual Wodehouse fun. There is a young mutton head who can’t say no to girls, a Kensington-educated secretary who says “quate” instead of “quite”, a shilling-less baronet whose American brother-in-law insists on addressing as “your lordship”, and an irrepressible young man named Joe Vanringham who, with his endless persiflage and unsinkable good humor, strikes you—or at least me—as a sort of two-fisted, American version of Psmith. But there are also passages—and in particular one character—that we don’t run up against in any of the other later, mature works.
Her full name is Princess Heloise von und zu Dwornitzchek. And I can’t think of anyone whom I’d rather not run up against. Richard Useborne, in his Plum Sauce, a P. G. Wodehouse Companion, agrees: “The Princess, wicked stepmother and not a bit funny, is the most un-Wodehousian character in all the books.” Her stepson, Joe concurs:
“The effortless ease with which she overrode all obstacles and went complacently through life on the crest of the wave offended his sense of dramatic construction. She was so obviously the villainess of the piece that it seemed inevitable that eventually the doom must overtake her. But it never did. Whoever had started that idea that Right in the end must always triumph over Wrong had never known the Princess Dwornitzchek.
“He watched her as she sat there smoking and smiling quietly at some thought that seemed to be amusing her, and tried to analyze the murderous feelings which she had always aroused in him. She was, as he had said, undefeatable, and he came to the conclusion that it was this impregnability of hers that caused them. She had no heart and a vast amount of money, and this enabled her to face the world encased in triple brass. He had a sense of futility, as if he were a very small wave beating up against a large complacent cliff. No doubt the officials of the United States treasury Department felt the same.”
Yes, there is the little, the very little smile (and a wry smile at that) at the end. But where else in Wodehouse have we read the word “murderous” written in earnest? What other character besides Joe Vanringham has felt this frustrated about someone this appallingly real? Earlier in the book we learn that that murderous feeling took root as Joe watched the princess “killing” his father:
“Oh, I don’t mean little-known Asiatic poisons. A resourceful woman with a sensitive subject to work on can make out quite well without the help of strychnine in the soup. Her method was just to make life hell for him.”
True, Lady Constance Keeble can menace the peace of her brothers (and I defy you to find another subject as sensitive as the ninth earl). Lady Julia Fish is capable of anything from heavy-handed irony to outright rudeness when it comes to breaking up her son, Ronald, and his chorus girl fiancée Sue Brown. And Bertie’s Aunt Agatha is always ready to marry him off to some frightful female or other. But we end up laughing at all three. After all, they are routed by, in the first two cases, the adroit staff work of the Hon. Galahad Threepwood, and in the latter case by the fish-fed intellect of the best gentleman’s personal gentleman in London, Jeeves. Watching them try to make life hell for the men in their lives is fun because we know they won’t succeed. Besides, these women have a redeeming what-is-it about them. Sometimes they are even right—Lord Emsworth shouldn’t have come down with a brass paper fastener serving in place of a missing shirt stud. Lady Julia earns the grudging admiration from her brother Galley, “there are the seeds of greatness in that woman”.
But the princess is uniquely, horribly different. Unlike Mrs. Rosalinda Banks Bessemer Spottsworth, another Wodehouse female worth millions, the princess uses her wealth as a weapon. And she is what we would now call now a cougar. But what makes her truly awful is that there is no Galahad or Jeeves to slip a well-aimed stick in her spokes. Her designs are not frustrated. She “wins”.
Fittingly, her paramour Adrian Peake also reminds us uncomfortably of unpleasant, manipulative, self-centered people we have known all too well in real life.
But all this is just a long way of saying that while there are elements in this novel that diverge from the usual Wodehouse romp, Summer Moonshine is still a satisfying, reliable romp. In fact, the princess and her twerp Peake provide an interesting counterpoint to the general Wodehousian fun, making it, if anything, more piquant. It seems to stand as an alternate universe to the self-absorption and destructiveness of the princess and her slimy consort. You get the distinct feeling that neither one of them would enjoy reading or listening to the Master’s works. People who take themselves too seriously seldom do.
A final word: Jonathan Cecil is pitch-perfect on this outing. His vocal portrayal of the princess—something between a spoiled Persian cat and a roused rattlesnake—is at times a little chilling.
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- CL, Anchorage
- 04-13-22
One of Wodehouse’ best
A glorious old fashioned romantic romp. One of my new favorites, alongside the Jeeves series.
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- Homeschooling mom of 10
- 10-14-22
Just what you'd expect from Wodehouse
As humorous as any other Wodehouse story. my go-to when I need a break from the stresses of life!
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